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Ugly Tank Contest 5 - Turf Algae Wars


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The Contest:

Do people tell you your tank is ugly? In my experience people aren't that rude without cause. They may be right. If so, good news! It is time yet again to show us a south facing window is not the best lighting choice. The 5th annual Ugly Tank Contest is open to contestants. We are looking for tanks that are ugly, just really, really ugly. Cyano plauging your coral? Nice! Hair algae covering your mag float? No wonder you can't find it! Please post pics!


The Rules:

Submissions must have a full tank shot (FTS). Only that picture will count towards the contest, but other supporting close up photos are appreciated.

You can reply to this thread to submit the photo.


Pictures must be submitted by March 16th.



We will be selecting the worst 7 tanks from those submitted. Each of these tanks will receive a $10 gift certificate. I personally will be choosing the finalists to narrow down the chance of popularity becoming an issue; the results have "improved" in the years we have had this policy so we will continue it until we come up with a better one. Each of the finalists will then vote for the tank they think is the worst, but are not allowed to vote for their own tank. You don't need to have turf algae, that is just a goofy name I came up with. Any algae filled tank will do.



Winner gets a free custom clean up crew shipped to clean the tank, or a refund for any custom crew that was purchased during the tank contest time.



Plus! Each entrant gets a $5 gift certificate. You will have to send me an email or pm with the code you want to use. Just something simple will work, like "Hey John, I posted a photo in the ugly tank contest, I want my code to be "jmaloney" " Just make sure to put the code in quotes or on a separate line.


Show us how bad it can get! Be prepared for some good humored kidding, but please don't be embarrassed. If algae didn't happen I would be out of a job.


To Enter:


Simply post a picture here. We will combine with other pictures from around the net into our contest thread located on this page:



Major Updates will be posted on this page, so if you are a contestant you will want to subscribe to it. Best of luck to you all, I hope each of your tanks is just terrible. :)
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fretfreak13

KENT STATE UNIVERSITY BIOLOGY CLUB ENTRY

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Full Tank Shot (most recent)

A bit about our tank...

 

This 20g high system was donated to us here at Kent State and placed in the "animal room" belonging to the biology club. In short, not much has been done with it since its original donation over four years ago due to lack of knowledge about marine aquariums, and this includes changing the MH bulb. As you can see from the picture, it is overrun with all kinds of baddies including, but not limited to, aiptasia, turf algae, cyanobacteria, and colonial hydroids. As well, the substrate was a mix of crushed coral and regular aquarium gravel and two of the rocks on the left side of the tank were regular rocks that you would go and pick up from the ground outside.

 

I am a new student at Kent and the moment I saw this tank I immediately took over its care. Since this picture it has been stripped, cleaned,and the bad rock/substrate thrown out and replaced with a few more clean hunks of live rock and Fiji Pink sand. Currently it is being re-cycled, and the rocks with the mushrooms are in a ten gallon QT tank, along with the two inhabitants, Starsky (three stripe damsel) and Hutch (yellow-tail damsel).

 

The rocks we salvaged are still riddled with algae, hydroids, and aiptasia and I am fighting them off the best that I can. However, our club runs only off of donations from other students, and its a well-known fact that us college kids rarely stray from our ramen noodle diet. The small amount of club money that we do have is split up between our nine animals and two fishtanks (one fresh, one salt), and I have already begun paying for this tank with my own money. Simply a $5 coupon code is a blessing, but we'd love to win this ugly tank contest (as bad as that is)!

 

Here are some more beautiful pictures! These were taken back in 2010, long before I got there. The entry photo at the very top of this post is the most recent, and as you can see (and expect), the condy nem didn't make it.

 

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I think that's I'll I got! Umm...enjoy! :lol:

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johnmaloney

Oh that is pretty good.

 

Work tanks, display tanks at schools and the like are always good candidates. Nothing like a tank with 50 owners and no one in charge of cleaning. :) lol...

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johnmaloney

Got the pm and replied. Thanks for submitting, I am going to link it to the main contest page now.

 

edit - actually can you send me the link? The forum software is preventing me from right click locating it.

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An algae tank contest??? Woo-hoo. I have figured it was a wicked chain reaction that led to my demise. My original CUC from reef cleaners did such a great job they starved to death, my couple hermits got hungry and ate the snails and they starved. CF light went over 6 months...then two months of working too many hours and neglecting basic maintenance allowed my tank to grow like its never grown before. I am almost sad to see it go. After 8 months my clown fish are finally hosting something besides the power head. Unfortunately it was just about every large patches of algae in the tank. It got to the point I wasn't sure where my live rock went to. Luckily my few corals seemed to push there it any besides some zoa that got small, nothing else is too worse for wear.

Not sure of the rules for the contest. I didn't see anywhere that said it had to be a current tank shot. If it needs to be a current tank shot, no problem. Mines few weeks old. I am glad I am able to keep John and his crew in a job. No matter what you do to get ride of it, you will need the CUC to keep it under control.

This is my FTS from a few weeks ago before it got a cleaning. Now I just need a new CUC to keep mowing it short.

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johnmaloney

Oh. :blink:

 

Send me the link to that image when you can, I think you may have a winner there. I can't right click steal its location b/c of the new forum software.

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Wow, and I thought my tank had looked bad before I got my CUC going.

John, I sent you the link to my pic that I have. Even though I can't win as it is not a FTS. :)

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not as nasty looking as it was about a week ago since I pulled out most of the red algae but its full of aiptasia and bubble algae. little bit of cyano here and there but here it is. 14 gallon biocube.

 

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That is pretty bad too. The other entry while worse is clean now so you have a good shot.

 

Yep, my algae apocalypse is doing much better, so keep the pics coming. Show you green!!

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Here is my ugly tank. Its a red sea max 130. It needs a lot of help as you can tell. Here are some pictures to support my statement :P

 

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Just for s#i*ts and giggles heres some close ups of some of the awsomeness.

 

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And if I ever wanted to sabotage someones tank all I would have to do is put this koralia in and let it share the nastiness.

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Monochrome5

OK so this isn't my tank, but I had to post it here. I design custom aquariums as well as maintain them for work. This was a client that called because they "thought their tank needed cleaned". Lets just say it really, really did... 47g with a sump. No skimmer (or any filtration for that matter). The Koralia had burnt out do to the algae clogging it. All that, and one little damsel hiding in and amongst the algae forest.

 

It's probably against the rules to share a tank that isn't mine, but I'm not in it to win (unless, of course, this counts. Then I'd love to win! :lol: )

 

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OK so this isn't my tank, but I had to post it here. I design custom aquariums as well as maintain them for work. This was a client that called because they "thought their tank needed cleaned". Lets just say it really, really did... 47g with a sump. No skimmer (or any filtration for that matter). The Koralia had burnt out do to the algae clogging it. All that, and one little damsel hiding in and amongst the algae forest.

 

It's probably against the rules to share a tank that isn't mine, but I'm not in it to win (unless, of course, this counts. Then I'd love to win! :lol: )

 

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Looks like something from a science fiction movie.

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OK so this isn't my tank, but I had to post it here. I design custom aquariums as well as maintain them for work. This was a client that called because they "thought their tank needed cleaned". Lets just say it really, really did... 47g with a sump. No skimmer (or any filtration for that matter). The Koralia had burnt out do to the algae clogging it. All that, and one little damsel hiding in and amongst the algae forest.

 

It's probably against the rules to share a tank that isn't mine, but I'm not in it to win (unless, of course, this counts. Then I'd love to win! :lol: )

 

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That's pretty bad. Geez, even after my 36g nuked because of macro algae, it didn't look nearly that bad.

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